Updates & Events

The U.S. Supreme Court has decided that the federal DOL’s Administrator’s Interpretation that mortgage loan officers typically must be paid as nonexempt employees under the federal FLSA is enforceable. 

A recent federal court decision addressed the discoverability of text messages, instant messages and voicemails.

Six Fredrikson & Byron attorneys were named 2015 Great Plains Super Lawyers, and three Fredrikson attorneys were named 2015 Great Plains Rising Stars.

Should a patent infringement lawsuit be stayed where an IPR challenges some, but not all, of the asserted claims? Magistrate Judge Hildy Bowbeer recently grappled with that issue.

In May, the District of Minnesota ordered the parties in a patent case to meet and confer to try to reach an agreement regarding the deadline by which the patentee must reduce the number of asserted claims.

Sixty-four Fredrikson & Byron attorneys were included in The Best Lawyers in America 2016^©.

On May 8, 2013, Steven M. Gardner filed an action against CafePress, Inc. alleging infringement of his copyrights in four works.

Attorney Emily S. Pontius joins Fredrikson & Byron’s Employment & Labor and Litigation Groups.

Fredrikson & Byron’s pro bono involvement with the Signal International Litigation was honored with eleven other law firms.

In 2014, the case resulted in a change in the legal standard that applies when a prevailing party seeks a finding that a patent case is “exceptional,” allowing the party to seek an award of attorney’s fees.